Winter Solstice

This is delicious, but you have to like tart flavors. The main flavors are essentially sweet and tart cranberry, pomegranate, and hibiscus flavors with subtle warming spices in the background. It’s very juicy and mouth watering, I’m a big fan of this stuff.

This is the first tea that I’ve tried and just thought NO at the first sip. It might be good hot,I’ll have to try, but cold brewed seemed to bring out the wrong flavors.

The dry smell seemed familiar, but I couldn’t quite think of it. After it was done cold brewing, it still had that smell. It didn’t hit me until I tasted it. LICORICE. I don’t remember seeing anything licorice in the ingredients, but perhaps something else has a similar flavor. The flavor is a sorta licorice medicine taste. I gave it to my mom, but she didn’t like it much either. I won’t rate, because it just seems to be a flavor I don’t personally like.

NO tasting notes for this one yet? How is that possible? I decided to try this one before the warmer weather hits, this being called ‘Winter Solstice’. (It’s apparently going to be 70 degrees tomorrow.) The steep was a light pink color. The flavor was different than any other tea I’ve tried, but there are many ingredients here I’ve never had in tea. It’s a bit tangy like a creamsicle flavor. Obviously, creamsicle is not something you’d usually associate with winter, but I guess it’s my best description. It has its own flavor! With herbal teas, I think they need a nice base to really bring out a strong flavor, but this tea couldn’t possibly be more crammed with delicious ingredients. Look at the list! Almonds! Rose petals! Even carrots! There was a WHOLE anise star seed in my steep fercrisakes. Those are bigger than a quarter!

Looking at the website (http://www.fusiontearoom.com/), every single tea there has an AMAZING list of ingredients (and picture!). They definitely get points for being inventive and going further than many other tea companies might go. They put their heart into this tea. This is the first I’ve tried from Fusion. I would love to try them all.